cabletn.
/ˈkeɪblɪt/ A small cable or cable-laid rope less than 10 inches in circumference.
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1575–6 in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 114/1 An Act for the true making of great cables and cabletts.
1613 Voy. Guiana in Harl. Misc. (1809) III. 176 By the..fury of the wind and sea, the cablet broke.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 54 Cablets, cable-laid ropes, under nine inches in circumference.
1800 Naval Chron. 3 65 Made fast to the principal cablet, or hawser.
1803 Rep. Commiss. in Naval Chron. 10 48 Cablets—Inches, 91/ 2, 9, 8, 71/ 2..3.
1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 52 When three cablets are laid up together, it is called ‘hawser-laid rope’.
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